Home comforts boost for vulnerable Manchester and Salford residents
Welcome donations were received after a leading hotel chain teamed up with a supported housing association.
Photo: Residents of Stanley Grove, Manchester with donations
Submitted by Sanctuary Supported Living
Residents of a supported living association in Manchester and Salford have been delighted after receiving a dazzling donation of home comforts.
Folk at Sanctuary Supported Living’s Victoria House, Wellington Road, Openshaw, and Stanley Grove, Levenshulme, received a contribution of five hundred pillows and four hundred cushions from a joint project between hotel group Yotel and Fresh Start Waste, a carbon conscious waste management company.
Sanctuary’s supported living services across Manchester and Salford provide supported housing for adults with a range of mental health needs or people who have been homeless and sleeping rough.
The donation has been gratefully received at a time when supporting the most vulnerable people is as important as protecting the environment through re-use to recycle.
Due to a re-brand, Yotel were updating the look and feel of their hotel.
They recognised that the pillows and cushions were too good to go to waste and worked closely with Fresh Start to partner with Sanctuary Supported Living.
The items have been given a new lease of life as supported housing put them to good use to spruce up their accommodation and enjoy the soft furnishings.
Louise Denbigh, Local Service Manager at Victoria House in Manchester said:
“We would like to thank Fresh Start and Yotel for thinking of Sanctuary Supported Living and the people we support. We are enormously grateful for their kind donations to our homelessness services. For the most part, clients come to us with very little and it means the world to them that others want to help. It also means so much to us that other businesses recognise the work we do, and want to help us to support people in their community.”
For more information about Sanctuary Supported Living’s homelessness services, or mental health services see our homelessness page, mental health page, read residents’ stories or find a service near you.
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